It's diameter is ~112k miles, or roughly 2% of the distance to its star. It's hard to imagine the amount of chaos in that atmosphere. I would think all of the churn from the gravitational gradient would end up effectively tidally locking it?
Totally agree. Particularly if it becomes tidally locked and you end up with a ring-shaped habitable zone that's out of the direct heating/radiation of the sun and fed by convective currents coming from the cold side.
