Monsoon Season in the Northeast?

It has rained almost continuously in the northeastern US for the past week or so, causing flooding in New Hampshire and New Jersey. This is after a summer in which it hardly rained at all. Ithaca's beautiful Taugannock Falls dried up to just a trickle.

That's the weather pattern in places like India: Summers are dry, and in the winter it monsoons. I don't know what this means, but I blame global warming and/or George Bush.