The Battle of Hoth in America

The polar vortex has returned, and with it some of the coldest air on record for much of the country. With temperatures below zero in many cities this week, you’re likely to start seeing memes of those cities being turned into a scene from Star Wars.

We’ve contributed our own image to the meme with the photo above, depicting the Battle of Hoth in front of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC. To the uninformed, Hoth is the desolate fictional planet covered with ice and snow from the Empire Strikes Back. It’s home to creatures like Wampa and Tauntauns and served as the setting for the Battle of Hoth. We’ve collected our favorite Hoth Meme photos to share with you below, because this joke never gets old when it snows in a major city…