What's a monsoon in New Delhi?

We arrived to India during Monsoon season. “Monsoon” sounds so exotic, and other-worldy. Would these be hurricane rains and wind? Something we had never seen before? It appears that in New Delhi, “monsoon” just means “rain.” It rains almost every day, for a couple of hours. Sometimes the rain is heavy, but it’s just rain, nothing other-worldly. The draining on the roads is not good, though, and so “monsoons” correlate with traffic jams and travel delays.