Mad Scientist- that is my reading of the situation and seems to be broadly in line with what I was trying to say.
My worst experience with this sort of situation was flying into Genoa in a 737-200. Joining the hold in some violent CBs, as we were going around the holding pattern, we were going from very strong downdrafts to updrafts at each end. Speed was falling back to 200 kts clean with full power on at one end whilst we struggled through the downdraft ( I actually saw about 195 with full power), and as we moved to the other end, speed was increasing and the thrust levers were coming back to idle at 290 kts. It was an extraordinary situation. We managed 2 holds in serious turbulence before chickening out and diverting to Milan Linate.
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