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Where are you seeing any mention of a 15-foot cone? It's a standard cone of 30 feet length, originating at a corner of your space.
I hadn't seen any mention of the "15-foot cone", that was why I was asking. It only stated "cone shaped burst" in the spell description. All of the spells I have previously (like burning hands) have been 15 foot cone burst. However, I just looked that spell up for comparison and now it makes sense that the snowball spell is 30'. I guess with a little more research I could have figured out the answer. Just needed clarification because I didn't know if the 30' was the range that the origin point could be or the size of the cone.
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Where are you seeing any mention of a 15-foot cone? It's a standard cone of 30 feet length, originating at a corner of your space.I hadn't seen any mention of the "15-foot cone", that was why I was asking. It only stated "cone shaped burst" in the spell description. All of the spells I have previously (like burning hands) have been 15 foot cone burst. However, I just looked that spell up for comparison and now it makes sense that the snowball spell is 30'.
Good stuff - for another classic example, see cone of cold.
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From http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic#TOC-Aiming-a-Spell:
A cone-shaped spell shoots away from you in a quarter-circle in the direction you designate. It starts from any corner of your square and widens out as it goes. Most cones are either bursts or emanations (see above), and thus won't go around corners.
Cones always originate from the caster - the range of the cone merely determines how long the cone is. Under 3.5, cone AoE's were as wide as their length at the end of the cone (where it's presumably widest); in PF, with all cone vertices being right angles, it would seem the width towards the end is actually now 1.4x the length.