Technicalities: How to Calculate the ‘Strength’ of an Updraft

“Is there a way to compute the strength of up- and downdrafts based on the amount of increase or decrease in airspeed? If I’m cruising along at an indicated 135 knots with a constant power setting, maintaining altitude and see my airspeed decrease to 110 knots as I pitch up to overcome downdrafts while maintaining altitude and power, it seems there should be some way to calculate the strength of those downdrafts based on the loss of airspeed. Coming out of the downdraft and into an updraft would have the reverse effect, with maybe 155 knots or so the resulting airspeed as the airplane pitches down to maintain ­altitude. I thought this might be a simple right-triangle problem, but the more I think about it, the more it seems like it’s probably more complicated than that.”